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Page 34
... passed him ; and Tom followed willingly enough . " Come upstairs with me , Tom , ” she whis- pered , when they were outside the door . " There's something I want to do before dinner . ' " There's no time to play at anything before ...
... passed him ; and Tom followed willingly enough . " Come upstairs with me , Tom , ” she whis- pered , when they were outside the door . " There's something I want to do before dinner . ' " There's no time to play at anything before ...
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... passing the time . But in so prim a garden , where they were not to go off the paved walks , there was not a great choice of sport . The only great pleasure such a restric- tion suggested was the pleasure of breaking it , and Tom began ...
... passing the time . But in so prim a garden , where they were not to go off the paved walks , there was not a great choice of sport . The only great pleasure such a restric- tion suggested was the pleasure of breaking it , and Tom began ...
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... passed through the gate into the lane , not know- ing where it would lead her ; for it was not this way that they came from Dorlcote Mill to Garum Firs , and she felt all the safer for that , because there was no chance of her being ...
... passed through the gate into the lane , not know- ing where it would lead her ; for it was not this way that they came from Dorlcote Mill to Garum Firs , and she felt all the safer for that , because there was no chance of her being ...
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... gave a shrill cry , and presently came running up the boy whom Maggie had passed as he was sleeping , - a rough urchin about the age of Tom . He stared at Maggie , and there ensued much incom- prehensible 64 TOM AND MAGGIE TULLIVER.
... gave a shrill cry , and presently came running up the boy whom Maggie had passed as he was sleeping , - a rough urchin about the age of Tom . He stared at Maggie , and there ensued much incom- prehensible 64 TOM AND MAGGIE TULLIVER.
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... passed in this lane - seemed to add to its dreariness ; they had no windows to speak of , and the doors were closed ... passing ! And there was a finger- post at the corner , she had surely seen that finger - post before , - " To Saint ...
... passed in this lane - seemed to add to its dreariness ; they had no windows to speak of , and the doors were closed ... passing ! And there was a finger- post at the corner , she had surely seen that finger - post before , - " To Saint ...
Contents
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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Halftone | 238 |
TO A WATERFOWL William Cullen Bryant | 242 |
THY FIGURE FLOATS ALONG Walter O Reese | 243 |
THE CUBES OF TRUTH Oliver Wendell Holmes | 254 |
DOWN THE SUNNY GLADE Walter O Reese | 258 |
A CHILDS THOUGHT OF GOD Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 267 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Halftone | 278 |
DON QUIXOTE Cervantes | 282 |
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THE BATTLE OF THE ANTS W E Scott | 94 |
WATCHING FOR THE LOON H R Weld | 102 |
ODE TO A SKYLARK Percy Bysshe Shelley | 105 |
THE POND IN WINTER Henry David Thoreau | 111 |
KNEELING TO DRINK Beatrice Braidwood | 112 |
WHERE THE GOOD SALMON GOES TO SMOKE HIS PIPE | 119 |
WINTER ANIMALS Henry David Thoreau | 126 |
THE RED SQUIRREL STEALING CORN R F Babcock | 131 |
TREES AND ANTS THAT HELP EACH OTHER Thomas Belt | 140 |
THE FAMILY OF MICHAEL AROUT Emile Souvestre | 149 |
THE DRUNKARD RAISED HIS HEAD Marie Wolford | 152 |
GENEVIEVE ENTERED WITH ROBERT Marie Wolford | 162 |
ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHERS PICTURE William Cowper | 168 |
MY MOTHER Walter O Reese | 173 |
ANNABEL LEE Edgar Allan Poe | 178 |
IN HER SEPULCHRE THERE BY THE SEA Walter O Reese | 179 |
THE REAPERS DREAM Thomas Buchanan Read | 186 |
THE RECOVERY OF THE HISPANIOLA Robert Louis Stevenson | 194 |
LOOKED INTO THE CABIN Mildred J McMaster | 198 |
RECOVERY OF THE HISPANIOLA Halftone Walter O Reese | 224 |
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Grace E Sellon | 226 |
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Halftone | 232 |
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT | 237 |
DON QUIXOTE Halftone Walter O Reese | 284 |
DON QUIXOTE TILTS WITH THE WINDMILLS H Slater | 291 |
MAMBRINOS HELMET H Slater | 297 |
HE PUT HIS HEAD OUT OF THE CAGE H Slater | 308 |
THE ENCHANTED BARK H Slater | 314 |
THEY WERE BLINDFOLDED H Slater | 325 |
SANCHO PREPARES TO LASH HIMSELF H Slater | 337 |
RINGROSE AND HIS BUCCANEERS | 340 |
WE MANAGED TO GET TO SHORE George Werveke | 343 |
SAWKINS WAS KILLED at the HEAD OF HIS MEN George Werveke | 355 |
RINGROSE CUT HIS NAME George Werveke | 366 |
DAVID CROCKETT | 371 |
DAVID CROCKETT IN THE CREEK WAR | 380 |
SAID FAREWELL TO MY WIFE AND TWO LITTLE BOYS | 381 |
FOUND A DEER THAT HAD JUST BEEN KILLED Burleigh Withers | 389 |
WHEN ONE INDIAN WOULD FALL ANOTHER WOULD CATCH | 400 |
AMERICA Samuel Francis Smith | 405 |
THE GATES WERE THROWN OPEN Garrett Van Vranken | 412 |
THE COMMANDER GAZED MOURNFULLY AT THE BROKEN FILES | 421 |
BATTLE OF IVRY Thomas Babington Macaulay | 423 |
ALFRED TENNYSON Halftone | 428 |
SHIP AFTER SHIP THE WHOLE NIGHT LONG G R Wheeler | 432 |
THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE | 437 |
THE LAST ENCOUNTER Helen Dagget | 445 |
MARCO BOZZARIS FitzGreene Halleck | 448 |
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